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Post by res on Jul 26, 2022 18:42:08 GMT -5
Holy Cross is at Siena for what looks to be the season opener on Monday, November 7. Can't complain about that scheduling. The Saints take BB seriously and generally have the best attendance in the MAAC. Siena trails St. Bonaventure 25-7 in the Franciscan Cup Series. That still blows out HC's record in the Turnpike Trophy competition. Kit will address that. Hahaha, but Bona's lead in the Franciscan Cup is a mere 7-4. The other 21 games were played back in the dark ages when gimmicks like the Franciscan Cup and Turnpike Trophy were reserved almost entirely for football. And at least those involved real rivals.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 26, 2022 19:03:09 GMT -5
There seems to be no series with Yale whatsoever any more (last game was 2014). Two coaches ago. Surprising. Yale always seems to have a very odd schedule...
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Post by sader81 on Jul 26, 2022 19:28:41 GMT -5
There seems to be no series with Yale whatsoever any more (last game was 2014). Two coaches ago. Surprising. Several years ago, I played in a fundraiser for Yale basketball at the Yale GC (the Course at Yale.) James Jones told me that he wants to play HC, but with the expansion of the the PL (BU & Loyola at the time), exam weeks and the guarantee games, there were limited options going forward to get together.
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Post by efg72 on Jul 26, 2022 21:00:45 GMT -5
Everybody wants to play us right now
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Post by purplehaze on Jul 26, 2022 21:30:16 GMT -5
I don’t think we want to play them. Lehigh played at Yale last season - if we wanted to find a way it would happen occasionally
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jul 27, 2022 8:19:55 GMT -5
I'm surprised Army and Navy don't play Air Force every year They usually do. Maybe date hasn't yet been announced?
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jul 27, 2022 8:23:46 GMT -5
Do you expect HC's to be much better? I don't. Probably will elicit my usual reaction of meh. No, but Army as a national school, should play more of a national schedule. The academies intentionally schedule a lot of travel when it comes to football, as they use road games as events to aid military recruiting. I don't think they have the same initiative when it comes to other sports. Army and Navy basketball have never drawn well outside of when they play each other. After football, the most popular spectator sports at Army are hockey and lacrosse. I love going to Cristl for both basketball and hockey games. Always found it strange that they routinely pack the place for hockey but draw flies in basketball.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 27, 2022 8:32:58 GMT -5
No, but Army as a national school, should play more of a national schedule. The academies intentionally schedule a lot of travel when it comes to football, as they use road games as events to aid military recruiting. I don't think they have the same initiative when it comes to other sports. Army and Navy basketball have never drawn well outside of when they play each other. After football, the most popular spectator sports at Army are hockey and lacrosse. I love going to Cristl for both basketball and hockey games. Always found it strange that they routinely pack the place for hockey but draw flies in basketball. The Hockey Rink is a very nice building to see a game from with nearly half the capacity of the hoops arena. The Basketball gym isn't memorable at all.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 27, 2022 9:34:50 GMT -5
I'm surprised Army and Navy don't play Air Force every year They usually do. Maybe date hasn't yet been announced? The OOC schedule that they announced includes 13 games, which is the maximum number that they are allowed to play.
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Post by timholycross on Jul 27, 2022 9:49:34 GMT -5
From the standpoint of OOC scheduling, I'd prefer the PL was 12 teams split into two divisions, 16 league games instead of 18.
Would prefer 2 more games in Nov or Dec and 2 less games thereafter.
I am sure that there are a couple decent opponents who HC and they simply cannot find mutually agreeable dates for the reasons spelled out in previous posts. You can probably throw in the Thanksgiving week as another factor. Some schools don't like scheduling games when there's no students around.
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Post by Tom on Jul 27, 2022 10:26:58 GMT -5
From the standpoint of OOC scheduling, I'd prefer the PL was 12 teams split into two divisions, 16 league games instead of 18. Would prefer 2 more games in Nov or Dec and 2 less games thereafter. I am sure that there are a couple decent opponents who HC and they simply cannot find mutually agreeable dates for the reasons spelled out in previous posts. You can probably throw in the Thanksgiving week as another factor. Some schools don't like scheduling games when there's no students around. All things being equal (which of course they aren't) HC would dance every 12 years instead of every 10
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Post by longsuffering on Jul 27, 2022 10:52:13 GMT -5
I liked the 14 game league schedule in the eight team PL. BU and Loyola gave the PL two warm water ports but since neither offer Football it isn't a level playing field in the Olympic Sports.
Ironically one reason given for the PL expansion was that because other leagues had expanded OOC opponents had fewer non-league games available and it was hard to fill up a PL team's schedule.
Boston and Baltimore are major league media markets but has that helped the PL in a measurable way? I don't think so. We always played BU in the OOC schedule anyways.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 27, 2022 14:18:04 GMT -5
I liked the 14 game league schedule in the eight team PL. BU and Loyola gave the PL two warm water ports but since neither offer Football it isn't a level playing field in the Olympic Sports. Ironically one reason given for the PL expansion was that because other leagues had expanded OOC opponents had fewer non-league games available and it was hard to fill up a PL team's schedule. Boston and Baltimore are major league media markets but has that helped the PL in a measurable way? I don't think so. We always played BU in the OOC schedule anyways. UMBC gets more coverage than Loyola just because of what they did.
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Post by purplehaze on Jul 28, 2022 9:36:12 GMT -5
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 28, 2022 10:20:00 GMT -5
Until proven otherwise, and I truly hope it happens, HC will have its hands full with any D-1 team we play
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Post by trimster on Jul 28, 2022 17:45:58 GMT -5
Until proven otherwise, and I truly hope it happens, HC will have its hands full with any D-1 team we play That will certainly be true on 11-14 when HC travels to Creighton.
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Post by bringbackcaro on Jul 28, 2022 17:57:55 GMT -5
@ Creighton on 11/14
1) I hope we finally smartened up with our contracts for these carpet bagger AD's and there is a large check associated with this game for Blossom going there 2) Going forward, we should be requiring a return home game when an AD leaves while under contract
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jul 28, 2022 18:04:32 GMT -5
Until proven otherwise, and I truly hope it happens, HC will have its hands full with any D-1 team we play Any school, not just D1.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 28, 2022 18:05:02 GMT -5
Here is Bucknell‘s 00C schedule. Not as strong as in past years - but they do have games at Georgia and Rutgers, and two A-10 opponents. Also a long stay in Florida.
Nov. 7 MON Lebanon Valley Nov. 12 SAT Niagara Nov. 15 TUE @st. Peter's Nov. 18 FRI @georgia * Nov. 21 MON Albany, A.Peay, or Presbyterian * Nov. 22 TUE Albany, A.Peay, or Presbyterian * Nov. 26 SAT Marist Nov. 30 WED St. Francis (PA) Dec. 3 SAT @njit Dec. 6 TUE @ La Salle Dec. 18 SUN Merrimack Dec. 21 WED @richmond Dec. 23 FRI @ Rutgers
* = Sunshine Slam (Daytona Beach)
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jul 28, 2022 18:12:57 GMT -5
137, does Nate Davis have pictures of Jermaine Truax?
Shocked he’s back after the past three seasons. Also, when Bucknell gets done by 15+ in a game does he stop coaching? Saw that happen multiple times last season.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jul 28, 2022 18:20:43 GMT -5
Remember when Nelson's coatholder poster said HC blew it by not hiring Davis when they could have...
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Post by purplehaze on Jul 28, 2022 18:27:59 GMT -5
'Going forward, we should be requiring a return home game when an AD leaves while under contract' - Are you serious ? BBC, What college sports world are you living in ?
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Post by bison137 on Jul 28, 2022 18:38:25 GMT -5
137, does Nate Davis have pictures of Jermaine Truax? Shocked he’s back after the past three seasons. Also, when Bucknell gets done by 15+ in a game does he stop coaching? Saw that happen multiple times last season. Not sure he needed pictures this year - but he may need them after this season. It turned out he has two years left on his contract, not the one year that many thought. Bucknell was not going to buy out two years. Had John Hardt still been AD, things might have been different, as Hardt had a lot more experience, more clout, and a better ability to find big donors as compared to Truax.. Although Davis is not even close to being a good coach, his PL record his first four years was 58-14. All thanks to inheriting the best group of players in PL history: Nana Foulland (PL POY, three times All-PL), Zach Thomas (PL POY), Stephen Brown (three-time All-PL), Chris Haas (twice 1st team All-PL), Nate Sestina (horribly misused by Davis but a starter at Kentucky, great senior season for Bucknell), Kimbal Mackenzie (All-PL as soph and senior, injured as jr), Nate Jones (starter as a soph before several injuries), Ryan Frazier (solid PG and PL All-defense), Dom Hoffman (strong rebounding PF who deserved more PT), plus a few others. All recruited by Dane Fischer, Aaron Kelly, and Dave Paulsen. But a 58-14 record buys a coach a lot of time - especially with an inexperienced AD. It was obvious by 2019 that Davis and his staff were not doing a good job, but the talent and the record covered that up for a lot of people.
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Post by trimster on Jul 28, 2022 19:09:16 GMT -5
Looks like only six more games to be announced. I am guessing Fairfield and Harvard are two them.
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Post by longsuffering on Jul 28, 2022 19:45:38 GMT -5
137, does Nate Davis have pictures of Jermaine Truax? Shocked he’s back after the past three seasons. Also, when Bucknell gets done by 15+ in a game does he stop coaching? Saw that happen multiple times last season. Not sure he needed pictures this year - but he may need them after this season. It turned out he has two years left on his contract, not the one year that many thought. Bucknell was not going to buy out two years. Had John Hardt still been AD, things might have been different, as Hardt had a lot more experience, more clout, and a better ability to find big donors as compared to Truax.. Although Davis is not even close to being a good coach, his PL record his first four years was 58-14. All thanks to inheriting the best group of players in PL history: Nana Foulland (PL POY, three times All-PL), Zach Thomas (PL POY), Stephen Brown (three-time All-PL), Chris Haas (twice 1st team All-PL), Nate Sestina (horribly misused by Davis but a starter at Kentucky, great senior season for Bucknell), Kimbal Mackenzie (All-PL as soph and senior, injured as jr), Nate Jones (starter as a soph before several injuries), Ryan Frazier (solid PG and PL All-defense), Dom Hoffman (strong rebounding PF who deserved more PT), plus a few others. All recruited by Dane Fischer, Aaron Kelly, and Dave Paulsen. But a 58-14 record buys a coach a lot of time - especially with an inexperienced AD. It was obvious by 2019 that Davis and his staff were not doing a good job, but the talent and the record covered that up for a lot of people. 14-38 in the PL is buying BN time with the two inexperienced ADs he has worked for. Fourth year the charm hopefully.
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